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A76012	Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670.	A letter sent by General Monck to Vice Admiral Goodson to be communicated to the rest of the officers of the fleet, in answer to a letter with some proposals lately sent to him from them.	1659.0		.xml	application/xml	1706	50	58	3. I do acknowledge that the Army hath been in the hand of God and instruments of good to these Nations , yet if they shall apostate from the Cause of God and his people in exposing them to Arbitrary Power , and the wills of men , in taking upon them to Abollish Lawes , raise money without consent of the people , destroy Ministery and property , and force Parliaments , I cannot but witness against such proceedings as unwarrantable not suted to any rule either from God or man . These enclosed Papers will fully certefie you , that we have just grounds of dissatisfaction , and that we cannot comply with such violent and unwarrantable undertakings , both against our reason as men , and against our Consciences as Christians , that you and we should take our Commissions and pay from the Parliament and yet to violate their Authority , after such solemn assurances of obedience and faithfulness , contrary to the expressed word of God , and our own late Addresses , I hope I am so well known to some of you , that I am none of those that seek great things to my self , or delight in the sheding the bloud of English men , much lesse of Christian Brethren , but to preserve the name of God from blasphemy and reproach , which our actings ( I wish I could not call them ) treacherousness and perfidiousness have occasioned ; whereby Jesus Christ and his truth have been evil spoken of , which makes our very lives bitter to us , and to assert the integrity and honour of this Army , which is very dear to me , I have been forced with the Parliaments Army under my command , ( though with much grief of heart ) to bear our Testimony against the late violence of the Army ; and the reasons thereof you will find in our printed papers , & our endeavours to perswade them in England to remove that force which they have put upon the Parliament .	cache/A76012.xml	txt/A76012.txt
